theophany

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
theophany
    n 1: a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a
         deity to a human person
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Theophany \The*oph"a*ny\, n.; pl. {-nies}. [Gr. ?; ? God + ? to
   appear.]
   A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually
   as an incarnation.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "theophany":
      Christophany, Masan, Satanophany, afflatus, angelophany,
      apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, astral,
      astral spirit, avatar, banshee, coming, coming into being,
      coming-forth, control, departed spirit, direct communication,
      disclosure, disembodied spirit, dissemination, divine inspiration,
      divine revelation, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, embodiment, emergence,
      epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, form,
      forthcoming, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum,
      immateriality, incarnation, incorporeal, incorporeal being,
      incorporeity, indication, inspiration, issuance, larva, lemures,
      manes, manifestation, materialization, materializing,
      mystical experience, mysticism, occurrence, oni, opening, phantasm,
      phantasma, phantom, pneumatophany, poltergeist, presence,
      presentation, proof, prophecy, publication, realization,
      revelation, revenant, rise, rising, shade, shadow, shape, showing,
      showing forth, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit,
      spook, sprite, theophania, theopneustia, theopneusty, unfolding,
      unfoldment, unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man,
      wandering soul, wraith, zombie
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